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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Seturdey, December 26, 1959 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN HOW ABOUT THIS MR. MAYOR ? Mayor Lyman Gifford, City Hall, Oshawa, Ont. Dear Mr. Mayor: Don't you think something that big event New Year's Day ? We don't mean the an- nual Open House at the Armories -- we mean the inauguration of the new bus service. The PUC has the con= fidence of the public in this bus enterprise, but we have a sneaking suspicion it just doesn't appreciate what an auspicious and historical occasion this will be on New Year's. For instance, if they're going to do anything to mark the occasion, they're keeping it a deep, dark se- cret, Surely you will recall what happened in Oshawa Jan. 27, 1940, when the CNR replaced the trolley cars here with buses after d 45 years? WILLIAM BODDY The city got out the big, red carpet as two of the new buses made inauguration runs crammed full with dignitaries from City Hall (and City Council), GM, the CNR, provincial and federal governments and other walks of life, One of the passengers was the late Gordon Con- ant, then attorney-general of Ontario. Mr. Conant also had the distinction of being a passenger 45 years before on the first street car to operate in Oshawa. That was in June, 1895. Other passengers included Mayor J. C. Anderson (now Judge Anderson of Belleville); John E. Edmond- son, the first conductor on a street car ever put into service in Oshawa; J. 'A. Bickell, one of the first Mo- tormen to operate a trolley here; W. H. Moore, R. S. McLaughlin, chairman of the board of GM of Canada; Norman Millman, C. E. McTavish, O. C. Miller, tax col- lector; A. N. Sharp, city treasurer; Fire Chief W. R. El- liott; and a prominent alderman known to yourself, Dr. W. H. Gifford. There was a nice touch added when Mr. Edmond- son presented all passengers on the inaugural run with ransfer mementos. COUNCIL SPLIT HEALTHY SIGN Council dropped its traditional hush-hush attitude towards the industrial commission at least temporarily Monday. That was after Alderman E. F. Bastedo asked for a pay boost, retroactive to last Aug. 1, for Industrial Com- missioner Thomas E. McLaughlin, Mr. Bastedo was granted his request, but he must have wondered at times whether it was worth the trou- ble. The heated, free-swinging verbal show that preced- ed fairly rocked the Chamber walls, and certainly there has not been such a spirited debate around Council in several months. | The villain of the piece, or, (depending on where your sympathies lie) the knight in solid armor, was Finley Dafoe, a tough-and-tumble alderman from the old political school who still hasn't lost his knack of mussing up an occasional opponent. Mr. Bastedo ran head on into Mr, Dafoe who made it quite plain that he wasn't at all happy about the pro- posed pay increase for Mr. McLaughlin who had (said Mr. Dafoe) received two boosts within a few months for an approximately total amount of $1,000, Mr, Bastedo calmly, but firmly, denied this, some- what in the manner of a dignified school teacher who suddenly discovers that several members of class are getting out of hand. Mr. Bastedo explained patiently but firmly, that the first amount of $100 put through for Mr. McLaugh- lin one month ago was not an increase but an adjust- ment to the standard rate of pay in the municipal scale There had been a $400 raise, plus a $600 car allowance, he explained. The atmosphere was more than tense when Mr. Dafoe (with all the delicacy of Whipper Watson doing the minuet) charged that Mr. Bastedo "had engineered the firing" of Mr. McLaughlin's predecessor, Mr. Rob- ert Langford. This charge was hotly refuted by Mr. Bastedo who charged that Mr, Langford resigned, to which Mr, Da- foe shouted, "call it a forced resignation, if you wish." This was too much for Mayor Gifford, who had carefully been trying to guide the debate along the lines of Council protocol. "I will not have any alderman singled out for eri- ticism over Mr. Langford's departure" because I was consulted before any decision was made," he snapped There will be those who will criticize Mr. Dafoe's methods while perhaps endorsing his motives; what Mr. Dafoe did do was to spark off a healthy and spirited debate, the details of which concern the public more than a little. It was easy to see that he had strong sup- port on several of his claims (especially from Alder~ men Brady, Thomas and Downs). All in all, it was re- freshing to see Council so openly split on such an im- portant issue, instead of lining up into a solid voting block as is s0 often the case. The public is entitled to a reasonable flow of infor- mation from the industrial commission so long as it does not impede progress. Certainly Industrial Commissioner McLaughlin sur- vived Monday's hassle without any loss in prestige. The life of an industrial commissioner is not unlike that of the professional coach of the football Argos. He is constantly open to severe criticism and public rebuke (and lives constantly in a glass cage) until he has achieved his goal. Meanwhile, few men have it in their power to do the community so much good as does a hard-working, intelligent commissioner whose achieve ments frequently don't show up for several months. THE COST OF BREAKING IN City Council got some first-hand information Mon- day night on initial costs involved when breaking into the bus business. That was when the PUC asked for $24,183 immedi- ately to get 'the operation under way and such items as the following were involved: garage rent $10,390 year, or $866 for January); tickets, $1132.20; transfers, $1038.96; two new safes, $2,345.25; bus licences, $2,321; money change for operation, $3,500; insurance premiums for public, $7,500; fidelity on operators, $80; changing deckals on buses, $600; working caiptal, $4,800. There was a humorous aside as City Clerk Roy Bar- rand completed reading the PUC letter (signed by Man- ager George Shreve) with the quotation: "Wishing you the compliments of the season." This drew a hearty laugh. The PUC will raise the money via a jank loan. should be done about 35,000,000 PEOPLE CROWDS OF NIGERIANS WAIT FOR RESULTS Commonwealth Family By DAVE OANCIA {number in 1960. Next October, Nigeria -- a na-| living near the Equator -- joins] the multi-racial ing more than a quarter of the {world's population. | The birth of this new nation |will strengthen the flexible {framework of the British Com. eration founded in 1953. { monwealth and demonstrate the| [trend towards more self-reliance velopment of a Commonwealth| and eventual partnership in the nation in which black and white] unique grouping of nations. {would live side by side in friend-| {ship and mutual trust. {HIGH ON AGENDA | | Almost certainly this event will rank high as a discussion topic {for the Commonwealth prime {ministers when they meet in London May 3. As in any family, the older brothers will help the new member to start on the road to maturity and independence. This should make the emer- gence into nationhood for Nigeria a relatively easy event. For this reason it will be a sharp con- trast to other possible develop- ments elsewhere on the dark con- tinent. The African giant iz starting to awaken. Already, in his state of half-sleep, half-wakefulness, he is torn between opposing forces. For the British government this may make the next 12 months a crisis year, By the end of 1960, Britain will largely have discharged her obli- gations to African territories that are predominantly black. | With the problems of these| areas cleared away, the British | government has indicated it will| give the highest priority to the | {tasks of developing multi-racial | | communities in Eastern and Cen-| {tral Africa. | [BRIGHT SPOTS | | There are some bright spots. In| December, Britain agreed to es- | tablish an African-majority par- liament for the 9,000,000 people] of the East African trust terri- | tory of Tanganyika. | During the previous month the | | new colonial secretary, Iain Mac-| leod, authorized an early ending | of the emergency that had kept the East African colony of Kenva under virtual police rule for nine years. | The next step forward for this colony comes in the shape of a| constitutional conference in Lon- don in mid-January, The big problem in Kenya, as in the Central African Federa- Father Faces Murder Count PEMBROKE (CP) -- Four month-old Roger Ellis died in hospital here Thursdav night and | police charged his father Donald, 21, with murder. i Ellis is a private in the Royal | Canadian Horse Artillery sta-| tioned at nearby Camp Pet- awawa. The child was admitted to hos- pital Monday. Police said his| head injuries apparently had been inflicted by a fist. His skull was fractured. Ellis, his wife and their one child lived on the Eganville Road near Pembroke. The father is to appear in mag- istrate's court Monday The Ellis family is from Belle- ville, police said. Man Charged In Arson Connection BANCROFT (CP) -- Clarke Terril, 33, of nearby Coesill Wed- nesday elected trial by jury on a charge of counselling to com- mit arson. He was charged in connection with a fire that de- stroyed a combination appliance] |shop and dwelling in nearby Pau. | Idash in April, 1958 { | Reginal Foster, 41 |business partner, and {estranged wife Gloria, 26, testi- fied that Tirrel asked them .to burn their home in nearby Maple Terril's Foster's Leat after the appliance shop re. | Foster has been charged 'with arson and fraud and his wife with arson Terril was committed for trial at the spring assizes of the On | | tario Supreme Court in Belleville] 'dan. 13 | tional family of nations embrac-/ern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. tory. in Britain's three Central African| MUCH AT STAKE One of the things at stake is the success or failure of the fed-| Success would mean the de-| ion of Africa south of the Shara into militant :~ states on the borders of white- dominated nations rigidly enforc-|face Commonwealth leaders ing racial separation. Some Brit-{other parts of the world. The gulf| ish ministers fear this could de-|between rich and poor in the fam- mense problems, most Common- velop into the world's first all-|ily of nations still is as wide as|wealth leaders agreed the family ties were strengthened during the| out racial war. {The British government seems' tion of roughly 35,000,000 Africans|a new crisis of race and empire on the constitution. 3 ' 1 | The Labor partv--asked by the and muiti-na-| territories of Southern and North government to co - operate i bilateral a iri BP the com- Kerala erupted last summer. In-|- mission by refusing to appoint dia dealt with this by dismissing three of its parliamentarians as the state government and ruling members. The primary motive behind La- r bor's action was that Macmillan | 378 as {refused to give an assurance that| the commission would be able to {consider breaking up the federa-| = : {tion if that was what the native Failure might mean the divis-| Africans wanted. black nationalist OTHER PROBLEMS { Problems almost as pressing|proaching more amicable rela- |ever To Be Joined By Nigeria ition, is to find a way in which committed to the task of making the prime ministers of the 10|/spent their first Christmas in Canadian Press Staff Writer |a white minority and an over-|the federation work. It has ap-|member countries will give much| Canada with friends and relatives LONDON (CP)--The Common-|whelming African majority can pointed the 26-member Monckton attention to ways of narrowing {wealth family will gain a new|live amicably in the same terri-|Commission -- which includes a|this gap. {Canadian' and an Australian--to| This problem is developing into|prepare. for the 1960 conference serious internal troubles as well las difficulties with neighbors Communal strife arising from te in a|OPposition to the Communist gov- gee ) roach to federation érnment in the Indian state of|in Ontario. Some members, too, |the state from New Delhi. India had trouble on her bor- ell. Red Chinese troops |were poised on her frontiers and ad-| {ministered territory. ndia and Pakistan in|tions. Despite the troubles and When they meet next spring, year. had both {even occupied some Indian - | The Kashmir dispute seemed |as intractable as ever as 1959 {ended, but there were signs that were ap- im- 'Refugees | Celebrate | Christmas HALIFA X (CP) .-- European refugee families Fri-| day celebrated Christmas, many| for the first time in a country) persecution. The refugees from camps in of a group admitted as Canada's ilv is a victim of tuberculosis, Five of the families remained here while the other 15 went to Saint John, N.B. There were 71 people' in the groups. Most of them attended church sters, some of whom had feared he would not find them in their new homeland. PRESENTS FROM GUELPH | There were also presents for the older folks. School children tion met almost instant response. | cluding radios and steam irons. | Reginald Casselman, district immigration superintendent, said |"the refugees were over {whelmed" by the reception. One 2 - year - old Yugoslav i "cost push" f f ligious and political [economists foresee continued but| COS ee om Teigious yo moderate inflationary pressures Italy arrived here Thursday, part|costs ris per cent. contribution to World Refugee government's tighi-money policy| Year, One member of each fam-|and the seeming absence of a fair chance for growth without inflation." Friday before being treated to a|hedge 4 [Christmas dinner. Santa Claus mates by noting that a resump-| ing pattern sat will be set for distributed presents to the young-|tion of the steel strike or an in./industry generally. | Immigration officials said they|depreciation came in 1959, as the [were "showered with gifts," in.|U.8. recovered from the third Cia} Consumer Safe Of Inflation 1960 By STERLING F. GREEN increase settlements which do not WASHINGTON (AP) --, With|exceed gains in worker produc- Twenty| 200d luck the U.S. consumer will|tivity. ~ {lose only a little of his buying power to inflation in 1960. Eisenhower's economic advis- ers are known to be leaning more to the view that 'the is the basic cause of modern inflation. This is jd ving theory that the most potent perhaps Wit oy 134 | flationary force no longer Is the few, relying on the classically recognized "pull" of {buying demand, but the upward push o Hsing ages and other runaway boom in any major seg- costs of doing business. ment of the country's economy,| Accordingly, most administra: see what one official called "a tion officials fear the inflation: impact of a steel wage setile- iment not so much because of a possible rise in the price of steel |itself, but because of the bargain- Most government and industry strongly through the year, Most government economists their conservative esti. flationary steel wage settlement could give extra momentum to the wage-price spiral. 1t now takes about $1.25 to buy what $1 bought in the US. in 1047-49, the period on which the, Deaths Believed Murder, Suicide GREENFIELD (CP) -- Bodies lin Guelph sent gifts to the chil-labor department's consumer] C005 'MacDonald, 62, and * dren. A plea by a city radlo sta- | price index is based. About 1% cents of that dollar his wife Louise, 58, were found Thursday in their home. Provin- police termed it a murder suicide. lls is HOPE FOR STABILITY {parently shot his wife a There have been some lulls but gauge shotgva and then took his no significant declines in the up-|" pu 0 couple lived alone in their ward march of prices since the|, 'ne on the main street of this post-war. recession. {seemed to sum up the feelings|Second World War. The longest| nooo" some 20 miles morth of |for the group here. Zorko Cerne, |a father of two, gazed around at {his mew surroundings and said: "We are very glad to be in Can- ada, I see we have many friends. Thank you very much, people of |Canada, for bringing us." TORONTO (CP) -- Four refu- [gee tuberculosis sufferers Friday while others were guests of the sanatorium in suburban Weston. The group was part of 19 fam- ilies--each with one member af- flicted with tuberculosis -- who were recently moved from refu- gee camps in Italy to hospitals 174 Mery St. RA 5.1202 lull, a nine-month stretch of al- most 'absolute stability in the in.|Cora¥all yi 1 ended in March. ob | There are reasons to hope, | most economists believe, that an-| Rock carvings 4,000 years old ANCIENT SKIERS i il | i have other period of reasonable stabil-| depicting people on skis ity, or only moderate increases, been found in Norway. lies ahead. 5 3 On- one point at least a agree: The government willl COMING EVENTS maintain and Jerbaps intensity] the squeeze on credit. Interes : Satirdas; = rates may go a bit higher before RUDK invites you on Saturday, Decor; they level off and turn down. [dinner dance. Come, Dring. oy friend. President Eisenhower is ex- Full course meal an a pected to lay heavy stress, in his Everyone, orecuine. For Taservations annual messages to Congress, on _____ {the necessity for reaching wage-| - BINGO COMING CORONATION Rugs! Rugs! Rugs!| Monday, Dec. 28th : ORANGE TEMPLE aturday, December While They Last THE SWINGING SHEPHERD 5 shes SIZES FROM MOE KOFFMAN 3006 9x10te 12x 15 INDIA HANDICRAFTS Any..-color, Any. oith, CASTLE JAZZ CLUB D Take your $77 INDIA ARTS and CRAFTS : CRA wishes all its friends and pick 'o wo wan sr owwn | zon 5, Vey hy an NU-WAY RUG ol CHRISTMAS AND CARPET SALES Admission $1.50 300b Starting Today COLES Fabulous HALF PRICE CLEARANCE of Toys, Games Christmas Cards and Gift Items. NO DEALERS NS SS ST -------- vs SORRY, NO PHONE OR MAIL ORDERS 'OPEN TILL 6 P.M. TONIGHT 9 AM. TO 6 P.M. MONDAY WHITBY BRASS BAND BINGO CLUB BAYVIEW, BYRON SOUTH, WHITBY Wednesday, Dec. 30th, 8 p.m. Bus Leaves Oshawa Terminal----25¢ Return SPECIAL GAME OF $250 $20 each horizontal line, $150 a full card 5 gomes at $30; 20 gomes at $20 TWO $250 JACKPOT GAMES 1st--54, 2nd--56; $30 Consolation $1.00 ADMISSION INCLUDES ONE CARD Door Prize and free admission tickets --Special New! Year's Prize Proceeds go te Building Fund 30'e KINSMEN BINGO FREE 'ADMISSION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29 20 -- $20 GAMES $150 Jackpot--$20 each line plus $50 full card 5---$30 games; 2--$250 jackpots JACKPOT NUMBERS 51 and 53 --Extra Buses-- JUBILEE PAVILION WOODVIEW COMMUNITY CENTRE MONSTER BINGO MONDAY, DEC. 28. 8 P.M: $1,300 CASH PRIZES--$100 DOOR PRIZES TWO $250 JACKPOTS--(51-54) . ONE $150 JACKPOT (MUST GO) 20 GAMES AT $20--5 GAMES AT $30 Plus free posses on right of every regular winner $1.00 admission gives you one card and free chance on $100 Door Prizes. RED BARN OSHAWA | SHOPPING CENTRE LJ NO DELIVF™'"S BUS SERVICE TO DOOR NEW YEAR'S BINGO © 10 TURKEYS AS DOOR PRIZES 16 PRIZES OF $10 ONE EACH OF $20, $30, $40, $50 SHARE THE WEALTH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26th ST. GREGORY'S AUDITORIUM SIMCOE STREET NORTH ADMISSION 50 CENTS INCLUDES TICKETS ON 10 TURKEYS TO BE DRAWN DECEMBER 26th 2 Zou dA GAMES AT $25 CHILDREN UNDER 16 NOT ADMITTED 3Ne : ; 1 y y 1 : i ee